Underlying these disputes were questions over whether Microsoft altered or manipulated its application programming interfaces ( APIs ) to favor Internet Explorer over third party web browsers, Microsoft's conduct in forming restrictive licensing agreements with original equipment manufacturers ( OEMs ), and Microsoft's intent in its course of conduct.

Later models have been credited with spurring competition in the previously stagnant Palm market, closing many of the gaps that existed between Palm OS PDAs and those powered by Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system, particularly on the multimedia front, but also with Sony's proprietary application launcher interface.

* Visual Basic for Applications, the application edition of Microsoft's Visual Basic programming language

Microsoft's intention was that application writers would write to the application programming interfaces in MS-DOS or the firmware BIOS, and that this would form what would now be termed a hardware abstraction layer.

The Windows API, informally WinAPI, is Microsoft's core set of application programming interfaces ( APIs ) available in the Microsoft Windows operating systems.

DCOM, which originally was called " Network OLE ", extends Microsoft's COM, and provides the communication substrate under Microsoft's COM + application server infrastructure.

Direct3D is part of Microsoft's DirectX application programming interface ( API ).

It was an early product in the Microsoft application portfolio and differed significantly from Microsoft's other software, which was largely business-oriented.

However, in Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation a command is considered to have been executed when the command's execute method has been invoked, but that does not necessarily mean that the application code has run.

Although StarBasic itself is similar to other dialects of Basic, such as Microsoft's VBA, the application programming interface ( API ) is very different, as the example below of a macro illustrates.

Additional application programming interfaces ( APIs ) arrived for a variety of tasks, such as Microsoft's WinG graphics library for Windows 3. x, and their later DirectDraw interface for hardware acceleration of 2D games within Windows 95 and later.

In 2002, a number of spammers began abusing the Messenger Service, a function of Windows designed to allow administrators to send alerts to users ' workstations ( not to be confused with Windows Messenger or Windows Live Messenger, a free instant messaging application ) in Microsoft's Windows NT-based operating systems.

For example, one of the key questions in the United States v. Microsoft antitrust trial was whether Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser was part of its Windows operating system or a separable piece of application software.

One application of " live analysis " is to recover RAM data ( for example, using Microsoft's COFEE tool, windd, WindowsSCOPE ) prior to removing an exhibit.

Publisher is included in higher-end editions of Microsoft Office, reflecting Microsoft's emphasis on the application as an easy-to-use and less expensive alternative to the " heavyweights ," with a focus on the small business market where firms do not have dedicated design professionals available to make marketing materials and other documents.

Charles Simonyi ( ˈkɑːroj ; born September 10, 1948, son of Károly Simonyi ) is a Hungarian-American computer software executive who, as head of Microsoft's application software group, oversaw the creation of Microsoft's flagship Office suite of applications.

In addition to the typical " out-of-the-box " modules, Microsoft's community of Independent Software Vendors ( ISV ) has developed a number of add-ons and verticals, all generally referred to as Third Party applications, which complement or enhance the existing functionality of the application.

The application is installed manually by the user, not through Microsoft's Zune PC software.

Judge Jackson's order that Microsoft be divided into two companies, one owning the Windows operating system and the other owning Microsoft's various application software products, including the Internet Explorer web browser, was also reversed on appeal.

The most prominent application of IIS and ISAPI is Microsoft's web server.

Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system also includes content-control software.

De Icaza endorsed Microsoft's Office Open XML ( OOXML ) document standard, disagreeing with a lot of the widespread criticism in the open source and free software community.

He has also been a longtime advocate of using Mono-a free software implementation of Microsoft's. NET Framework-in GNOME.

This was primarily due to the increased usage of Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser software, and partly because the Netscape Corporation ( later purchased by AOL ) did not sustain Netscape Navigator's technical innovation after the late 1990s.

At the time, Oracle wished to differentiate their server-oriented software from Microsoft's desktop-oriented products.

Apache is the most commonly used web server software ( according to Netcraft statistics ) and Microsoft's IIS is also commonly used.

Marked " Microsoft confidential ", they identify open-source software, and in particular the Linux operating system, as a major threat to Microsoft's dominance of the software industry, and suggest ways in which Microsoft could disrupt the progress of open source software.

These documents acknowledged that free software products such as Linux were technologically competitive with some of Microsoft's products, and set out a strategy to combat them.

Together, these documents demonstrate Microsoft's continued awareness that its open-source competitors are a potential threat to its livelihood in the software industry.

Most Windows video software only supports DV packed into AVI containers, as they use Microsoft's avifile. dll, which only supports reading avi files.

Microsoft has received a great deal of bad press surrounding their Palladium software architecture, evoking comments such as " Few pieces of vaporware have evoked a higher level of fear and uncertainty than Microsoft's Palladium ", " Palladium is a plot to take over cyberspace ", and " Palladium will keep us from running any software not personally approved by Bill Gates ".

She went to Microsoft's offices, and asked two software engineers there, John Ulett and Mark Ursino, who confirmed that development of Xenix had stopped.

The Microsoft Developer Network ( MSDN ) is the portion of Microsoft responsible for managing the firm's relationship with developers and testers, such as: hardware developers interested in the operating system ( OS ), and software developers standing on the various OS platforms or using the API and / or scripting languages of Microsoft's applications.

Microsoft's MSDN license agreement makes a specific exception for Microsoft Office, allowing the subscription holder to personally use it for business purposes without needing a separate license — but only with the " MSDN Premium Subscription " and even so only " directly related to the design, development and test and / or documentation of software projects " as stated in the MSDN licensing FAQ.

An MSDN subscription also allows access to obsolete software from Microsoft's past.

Prior to the release of Windows Mobile 2003, third-party software was developed using Microsoft's eMbedded Visual Tools, eMbedded Visual Basic ( eVB ) and eMbedded Visual C ( eVC ).

Some editing software can now be accessed free as web applications ; some, like Cinelerra ( focused on the professional market ) and Blender3D, can be downloaded as free software ; and some, like Microsoft's Windows Movie Maker or Apple Inc .' s iMovie, come included with the appropriate operating system.

Owing to the increasing price of alternative software such as Microsoft's Publisher, Serif PagePlus remains popular among voluntary and low-income organisations.

Microsoft's version numbering identifies the specific release and revision of Microsoft software products.

In 1996 it acquired Novell WordPerfect and started competing with the thought of being " Pepsi to Microsoft's Coke " as Microsoft Word was the top-used word processing software at the time.

* The. NET Framework is built on the Common Language Runtime, Microsoft's commercial implementation of the CLI for desktop and server systems, and also encompasses a large collection of programming frameworks and libraries.

For example, Microsoft's Outlook client uses a proprietary protocol to communicate with a Microsoft Exchange Server server as does IBM's Notes client when communicating with a Domino server, but all of these products also support POP, IMAP, and outgoing SMTP.

Multiplan for the Apple Macintosh was Microsoft's first GUI spreadsheet ; it was also the most successful spreadsheet for the early Mac.

He also gives Microsoft's view on bug tracking.

Support for Microsoft's NTFS file system was also missing, but could be freely installed as well.

and AOL agreed to a deal in which Microsoft's Live Communications Server 2005 users would also have the possibility to talk to public instant messaging users.

Microsoft's stated aim for NGSCB is to increase the security and privacy of computer users, but critics assert that the technology will not only fail to solve the majority of contemporary IT security problems, but also result in an increase in vendor lock-in and thus a reduction in competition in the IT marketplace.

Its main focus is on Microsoft's. NET platform, however it also features articles on areas such as programming practices and design patterns.

With Mobile 6 also came Microsoft's new naming conventions and devices were no longer called Pocket PCs: devices with no phone abilities were named Windows Mobile Classic, and devices with phone abilities were named Windows Mobile Professional.

As part of this agreement, the University of Waterloo was to receive $ 2. 3 million in funding from the Microsoft Canada Academic Innovation Alliance and would introduce Microsoft's C # programming language in its Electrical and Computer Engineering programs ( also known as ECE.

It was also used for Microsoft's WebTV for Windows and Intel's Intercast.

The Samba Team is also implementing DCOM for over-the-wire interoperability purposes: unlike the Wine Team, they are not currently interested in binary-interoperability, as the Samba MSRPC implementation is far from binary-interoperable with Microsoft's MSRPC.

Microsoft's GUI was also more popular and looked more modern than the character-based Novell interfaces.

Game design was done in Toronto VR -' s Toronto office, but Microsoft's usability testing group also contributed.

During this time the system, with the Windows client, also became the foundation for Microsoft's first on-line service for developers, the Microsoft Partner Network ( MSPN ).

However, Preston Gates, which was also Microsoft's law and lobbying firm, also contributed to Washington Democrats during that cycle, including Congressman Jim McDermott of Seattle.

Future versions in the Creative ZEN line exclusively use Microsoft's Media Transfer Protocol ( also known as PlaysForSure ), and some legacy devices have been supplied with firmware upgrades to support MTP.

Gaming itself was also emerging from its niche market into the mainstream with the release of easier-to-use and more powerful operating systems, such as Microsoft's Windows 95, that leveraged continually evolving processing capabilities.